Two sides of the same university.
The same broken workflows.
A student enrolls in Banner. Then your team manually creates accounts across 8–15 systems over 5–10 days. Password resets eat 30–50% of help desk tickets. Semester start means overtime for three weeks straight.
A PI submits an IRB protocol. It bounces back for missing CITI training, an expired consent form, and a budget that doesn't match the grant application. Three revision cycles later, the review hasn't started. Meanwhile, 3,500 awards are overdue for closeout.
"We use Huron for grants, Click for compliance, Banner for finance, CITI for training, and email for everything in between. Nobody has connected them. Every handoff is manual. Every deadline is tracked in a spreadsheet."
— Research Administrator, Mid-Sized R2 University
Ten operational domains. One automation partner.
Every service is built on your existing systems. No platform replacement. No multi-year implementations. Measurable results in weeks.
IT Account Provisioning
From enrollment to access in under 30 minutes. Automated lifecycle across every system.
Banner · AD/Entra ID · Canvas · M365
Learn more →Enrollment & Registrar
Transfer credit evaluation, degree audits, and cross-system data reconciliation.
Banner · Colleague · PeopleSoft
Learn more →Financial Aid Automation
Verification workflows, document collection, and compliance reporting.
Banner · PowerFAIDS · Salesforce
Learn more →Employee & Adjunct Onboarding
Automated onboarding across HR, IT, and LMS from day-one offer acceptance.
Workday · AD · Canvas · M365
Learn more →Admin Compliance & Reporting
IPEDS, accreditation, and audit-ready data pipelines that run themselves.
Banner · Argos · Tableau
Learn more →Student Communications
Triggered, personalized communications at scale — enrollment to graduation.
Salesforce · Canvas · M365
Learn more →Research Compliance Automation
IRB, IACUC, and IBC submission pre-screening, reviewer routing, and cross-committee coordination.
Huron/Click · CITI · eRA Commons
Learn more →Pre-Award & Proposal Management
Proposal routing automation, deadline escalation, budget pre-population, and compliance pre-checks.
Huron/CERES · Grants.gov · Research.gov
Learn more →Post-Award & Closeout Automation
Closeout tracking, effort certification alerts, cost transfer workflows, and subaward monitoring.
Huron/CERES · Banner Finance · ERP
Learn more →Research Analytics & Reporting
HERD survey automation, cross-system dashboards, and research productivity metrics.
Huron SQL Views · Banner · HERD/NSF
Learn more →Three phases. Measurable results in weeks.
We don't do multi-year implementations. Every engagement starts with a clear scope and delivers working automation before the next semester.
Discover
1–2 weeksWe map your current workflow step by step. Every manual touchpoint, every system, every handoff. You get a complete provisioning workflow map and a clear picture of where automation creates the most value.
You get: Workflow map + ROI analysis + implementation roadmap
Investment: $2,500–$8,000
Build
2–6 weeksWe build the automation pipeline on your existing systems. Banner to AD to Canvas to email — connected, tested, and documented. Your team can monitor and modify everything we build.
You get: Working automation + documentation + staff training
Investment: $8,000–$25,000
Optimize
OngoingMonthly monitoring, new system integrations, semester-start support, and continuous optimization based on real usage data. Your automation gets smarter over time.
You get: Monitoring + maintenance + expansion + priority support
Investment: $1,500–$3,000/month
30 minutes. No pitch. Just a clear picture of what's possible.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Account provisioning time
Down from 5–10 business days
Faster IRB approval cycle
With pre-screening automation
IT staff hours reclaimed per year
Redirected from manual to strategic work
Overdue closeouts eliminated
Emory reference case via RPA + orchestration
Reduction in orphaned accounts
The #1 credential-based attack vector
HERD survey prep time automatable
Per institution, per year
"We design every engagement so the results are measurable within 30 days. If the first phase doesn't demonstrate clear ROI, you walk away with everything we've built — fully documented and owned by your institution."
Our guaranteeBuilt for mid-sized institutions that are too complex for spreadsheets and too lean for enterprise platforms.
✓This is for you if...
✗This is NOT for you if...
Not sure if you qualify? Book a 30-minute discovery call. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you — and point you toward who is.
Founder, The Admin Ops Accelerator
7+ years in higher education IT
"I didn't start a consulting company because I wanted to be a consultant."
I started because I spent seven years watching the same manual processes eat the same teams alive, semester after semester. Banner to AD to Canvas to email — every IT team I know does this by hand. And every semester start, they work overtime for three weeks to keep it running.
But the deeper I got, the more I saw the same patterns on the research side. IRB submissions bouncing back for missing training records. IACUC protocols sitting in queue because nobody flagged the expired CITI. Sponsored programs staff manually checking congruence between grants and protocols by opening two systems side by side. And a research analytics function held together by SQL queries that one person wrote and nobody else understands.
The Admin Ops Accelerator exists to connect the systems you already have — on both sides of the house. Banner to AD to Canvas. Huron to CITI to grants. No platform replacement. No multi-year implementations. Just the plumbing that should have been built years ago.
Read the full story →From enrollment trigger to full access — automated.
Automated provisioning pipeline — enrollment to access in under 30 minutes